Democrats whine: Boehner broke with protocol by inviting Netanyahu without telling Obama first

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Credit where it’s due: Not in the darkest corners of my partisan heart did I think liberals would have the balls to complain about Congress stepping on executive prerogatives after the years-long dump Obama’s been taking on separation of powers. You would think, after he unilaterally suspended the employer mandate in ObamaCare, ordered not one but two enormous amnesties for illegals, and, oh yeah, launched multiple wars without seeking Congress’s authorization, that Democrats would tolerate or even expect that Boehner might not be a stickler about observing traditional courtesies between the branches. Turns out they’re quite surprised by his affront. ViaBreitbart, watch below as Jen Psaki calls it an “episode of the bizarre.” Obama’s handing out work permits to people who are here illegally under U.S. law and Boehner’s invite is “bizarre”?

Am I awake?

He didn’t consult with the White House before extending the invitation, and administration officials are not happy. Press secretary Josh Earnest said Wednesday afternoon that Boehner’s invitation is a breach of normal diplomatic protocol. Typically, a nation’s leader would contact the White House before planning a visit to the United States, he said. The White House heard about the invite from Boehner’s office, not from the Israelis.

According to pool reports, Earnest called the invite “interesting,” and when asked if the White House was annoyed because Boehner did not reach out first, he said, “No.”…

However, this isn’t the first time a House speaker has reached out to a world leader despite a White House request to stay back. In April 2007, then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi traveled to Syria to meet with President Bashar al-Assad despite the Bush administration’s objections. Pelosi wanted to start a dialogue with Syria, as diplomatic relations had broken down in the 1990s; President George W. Bush rejected such negotiation, saying, “Sending delegations doesn’t work.”

Speaking of Pelosi, she’s mad at Boehner today too — not for breaking with White House protocol but for breaking with protocol within Congress.

“When I was — also when I was minority leader and became one of the four leaders, it was clear always that if we wanted — if we had a suggestion about a head of state to come, that it was something that had to — you passed around the four top leaders,” Pelosi told reporters at a press conference today…

Pelosi said Boehner has “awesome power” in his position as speaker, but “that power is not to be squandered.”

It’s hubris to say, you know, ‘I rule; I’ll decide.’ And without any sensitivity to the fact that an [Israeli] election is taking two weeks — and within two weeks, the invitation I get is for the 3rd of March and the election is the — what? — the 17th, something like that. And also the fact that what is the purpose of it. Is the purpose to come and talk about sanctions? To talk about a policy in opposition to the policy that our president has just put forth in his State of the Union address and that has been in operation for many months?”

Yeah, again, it’s awfully late in the day to be complaining about hubris and comity inside Congress. The only reason Obama gets away with his far more hubristic encroachments on legislative power is because congressional Democrats are happy to back him up. For Pelosi’s caucus, partisan interests trump constitutional and institutional ones. Boehner deciding not to run an invite past her before announcing it is the mildest possible rebuke to that sort of betrayal. And that’s just the House: You know all about how Harry Reid locked Republicans out of the amendment process in the Senate, then turned around and blew up their filibuster for presidential appointees. There is no “protocol” after partisan aggression like that. I’m amazed Pelosi could suggest there is with a straight face.

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wah wah wah. you want cheese with that whine?

Wait….Obama bypasses Constitutional requirements – illegally legislating from the executive branch – and that is ok…but the SOH invites a foreign leader to speak in a violation of arbitrary protocol and suddenly not following rules is a problem?

Cry me a river….

Reading “Hot Air” comments were quite entertaining. How could Pelosi complain with a straight face? With all that botox it was pretty straight forward. One observer said that Nancy was so perturbed that she just about blinked. The USA should not meddle in Israeli elections. When did that actually happen? No photo ops with the Bamster. That should be a plus for Bibi. It goes on and is comedy gold.

There’s a reason why it’s a far more serious matter than simply having broken protocol. It’s not just a matter of discourtesy, which this particular President has come to expect from this particular republican Congress. It’s because success of the negotiations that this particular republican Congress threatens to complicate or totally derail for no good reason might be the best or only chance we have to avoid war with Iran, or an Iran with nuclear weapons.

I explained why I believe that is so in another thread on the same topic, and have yet to hear anyone address those observations. The only reason republicans are doing this has to do with their political war with Obama.

There’s no logical reason to believe deliberately disrupting the Executive Branch’s negotiations with Iran will diminish the risks of a bad outcome for the United States, and every reason to think that they will increase the danger of very negative consequences. There are relatively few possibilities ahead, and the outcomes of each seem quite predictable. The problem is that Congress doesn’t seem to be focused on that.

@Greg:
Discourteous?
Like rewriting laws without Congress?
Like shoving “unilateral” down Congress’ throat?
I want to see a lot more of this

Greg: Thank God your comments are published. THEY CONFIRM RIGHT LEANING THOUGHTS.
Thank you

@Greg: you are just too far gone.

@Disenchanted: Well said!! Greggie still can’t admit President Obola lied to America when he said if you like your health insurance and/or doctor you can keep them “period”!!

@tommy boy: Greggie will figure out a way to blame Bush before he’s finished!!

@Greg:

It’s not just a matter of discourtesy, which this particular President has come to expect from this particular republican Congress.

You are talking about Pelosi’s trip to Syria against President Bush’s request aren’t you?

So, if Boner had invited a woman who took a bath in junk cereal and ate from it to speak, that would have been proper decorum?

“He didn’t consult with the White House before extending the invitation, and administration officials are not happy. ”

So what? Congress is a separate branch of government and it’s leadership is not required to consult with the White House regarding whom it shall invite to speak before it’s members. Since when has Obama consulted with Boner or Congress before inviting someone into the WH (The People’s House) to speak?